I burn incense on an almost daily basis. I started blending my own loose incenses and making my own smudge wands eight years ago and my passion for knowledge on native plants quickly drove me to research which aromatic botanicals from the Pacific Northwest would be best for incense and…

Capnomancy or libanomancy is divination or scrying with the use of smoke. Various cultures have various traditions around capnomancy. It is a method used in Hoodoo, some Native American cultures, and among those following various restored Greek, Babylonian, and middle eastern traditions. It is impossible to make a universalist guide…

A variety of resins and saps are used in witchcraft. Their uses abound. People spend a lot of money buying special resins from far away places, but most regions have everything you’d need. So browse the list, and if you have things that are more easily available in your area,…

Flu season is coming, so it’s a good idea to have a few potions around both for prevention and healing. How to bless them depends on your belief system/pantheon. I recommend that you become observant of whoever your deity in charge of medicines and healing, as well as those in…

A spell or working usually has one to three main components: the ceremony, the concoction, and the talisman. The ceremony should always be part of it, but with the ceremony, one can choose to use neither, one, or both a concoction and talisman. In this lesson, we’re going to focus…

Arden Keren has won the Witch University Educational Excellence Award. He has an excellent website in Hebrew with great recipes, lore, and insights into a variety of spiritual traditions and practices. It is, by far, one of the best websites on the subject of witchcraft in Hebrew. Keep up the…

Many if not most adherents to Vodun and diaspora Orisha belief systems are introduced to Eshu through an elder, teacher, or priest/ess. We receive an Ifa reading early in life, to find our head Orisha, and what kind of fate or fortune we can look forward to, and things we…